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Marquis de Lafayette

The Chateau de Bernaville was bought in 1856 by the Marquise Arsène Martel de Janville. She was the grand daughter of Major General René Adrien le Seigneur du Chevalier, page of King Louis XV, adopted father and aide-de-camp of Lafayette, the famous brother-in-arms of George Washington in the American War of Independence.